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Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

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145 points itkeman | 2 comments | 22 Jan 25 11:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

As a native Windows user who switched to macOS a few years back, one thing I never got over was the simplicity and usefulness of the old school Notepad app. This app aims to recreate that very same experience, cross-platform and easily installable as a PWA.

I've been using this for personal use for around 2 years and I figured it was time to share it with the world. Criticism, issues and PRs are welcome. Thanks!

1. nashashmi ◴[22 Jan 25 13:51 UTC] No.42792799[source]▶
I always gravitate to Caret-T app on Google chrome. It was just as fast as notepad. And allowed for some customizable shortcuts like multi cursors.

These days the only thing that comes close is a feature rich vscode that is slower than other pwa apps.

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2. nashashmi ◴[22 Jan 25 13:55 UTC] No.42792841[source]▶
There was also a nifty scratchpad by Google for Google chrome that would sync to gdrive. Google axed it. Then a couple of years later launched Google Keep. In summary, google destroyed Google Scratchpad PWA app, then destroyed Google PWA app store for desktop browsers. Then Google launched Google Keep but I thought it was not going to last long so I never got the hang of it.